Running Asp.NET vNext on a Mac

Anze Vodovnik -

I am preparing for a talk I am about to give very soon (more to follow), and I wanted to demo some of the new features of ASP.NET MVC 6 on a Mac. It took reading instructions on multiple sites to get this to work, so I wanted to write it down in one place. Hopefully, this can help someone save a little bit of time. The only thing that is assumed to already be installed is npm.

  1. We start with installing brew, by running: (instructions here)

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

  1. Next, we need to install the command line tools for vNext. Details are available on this link:
brew tap aspnet/k
brew install kvm

and in case your terminal won't understand kvm (and it probably won't on the first run), type

source kvm.sh

  1. Install the package manager in Sublime (this page has more details) by opening it's console (View - Console) and pasting in the following code:

import urllib.request,os,hashlib; h = '7183a2d3e96f11eeadd761d777e62404' + 'e330c659d4bb41d3bdf022e94cab3cd0'; pf = 'Package Control.sublime-package'; ipp = sublime.installed_packages_path(); urllib.request.install_opener( urllib.request.build_opener( urllib.request.ProxyHandler()) ); by = urllib.request.urlopen( 'http://packagecontrol.io/' + pf.replace(' ', '%20')).read(); dh = hashlib.sha256(by).hexdigest(); print('Error validating download (got %s instead of %s), please try manual install' % (dh, h)) if dh != h else open(os.path.join( ipp, pf), 'wb' ).write(by)

  1. Install the Sublime add-on, Kulture, by pressing Cmd + Shift + P  and selecting Package Control: Install Package , then finding Kulture

  2. Scaffold a project by opening a terminal window, and typing:

npm install -g yo
npm install -g generator-aspnet

then, create the actual project:

yo aspnet

  1. Open the project

7. Grab the NuGet packages - we just scaffolded the project, now we need the NuGet files, so first, bring up the Command Palette again, by pressing Cmd + Shift + P, then select "K commands" and type kpm restore .

8. To build the project, I had to select the type of build manually. Automatic detection didn't work. Then, I pressed Cmd + B .

 

  1. Finally, open the Command palette again, by pressing Cmd + Shift + P , select Run K commands, and run K kestrel . Be wary of the port number, then, open your favourite browser and behold the beauty that is a MVC page on a Mac OS X.